Quotes About Interrogation

The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.

You're going to tell me even if I've got to shake it out of you.

Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!

Uproot your questions from the their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. More questions!

during the first two interrogative sessions. Either I refused to answer or I would reply

Asking questions were the most important thing.

I would never interrogate a child or a spouse the way I would a litigant. People wouldn't want to be around you. You'd wind up all alone on an island.

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

Work?" Sixtus asked.

Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo

We should also accept the limits of our ability to decipher strangers. In the interrogation of KSM, there were two sides. James Mitchell and his colleague Bruce Jessen were driven by the desire to make KSM talk. On the other side, Charles Morgan worried about the cost of forcing people to talk: what if in the act of coercing a prisoner to open up, you damaged his memories and made what he had to say less reliable? Morgan's more-modest expectations are a good model for the rest of us.

Trying to get information out of someone you are sleep-depriving is sort of like trying to get a better signal out of a radio that you are smashing with a sledgehammer.

We were able to establish guilt," Giobbi said, "by closely observing the suspect's psychological and behavioral reaction during the interrogation. We don't need to rely on other kinds of investigation.

Quiero decir que le plantearé unas cuantas preguntas. Preguntas y nada más que preguntas.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. Richard Feynman

Or is that four words?

I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized. Everyone in the room stared at him. I called him an asshole, too, said Locke. He didn't like that.

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.

Science is about questioning things.